I'd like to chime in with a positive note as a humble end-user. I'm Tech Director in a smallish School District in SW Washington and we've been working hard getting open source software in front of the kids. Obviously it benefits us getting "free" software, but I enjoy using it and exposing others to it!
Anyway, Ubuntu/Edubuntu certainly seems to have come a long way in the last couple years, we're having a lot of success with current LTSP, Sabayon etc etc and I want to say thanks to all those that do so much. I know how hard it is to organize a project like this on the backs of volunteers and frankly it's amazing that it does as well as it does!! I'll keep listening in and contributing where I can, I know there are lots of others like me in Education that silently use Edubuntu and are thrilled that it's there. Greater cooperation with other projects (debian-edu...) and more active participation from users could obviously only be a good thing, I'm sure things can gently be steered in positive directions... Thanks again, Steve Rippl On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 16:06 -0700, Scott Balneaves wrote: > Hello all, > > Rather than get into the previous thread, thought I'd start a more > positive > one... > > 1) I'm not leaving. I've been *sick* for the last week, (something > flu like, > I'm hoping it was H1N1, so I'll have immunity to it now :), but, > still > slogging away in the trenches. > 2) As part of my committment, Sabayon is now in a workable state for > Karmic. > As well, I've also created a set of patches that (Hosannah!) allows > for gui > applies of profiles *by group*. As part of this process, I've > become an > upstream developer, and Federico's now accepting my work upstream. > 3) I'm still plinking away at the handbook. I undertook several > months of work > getting the Docbook in place for the LTSP translation. Vagrant's > done some > preliminary packaging work for the LTSP docs, and I'm working on > the > handbook cleanup. > 4) I am subscribed to the debian-edu mailing list, and have contacted > some > Debian developers. Apparently, they want me to take over the > Sabayon > package in Debian as well (!) and I now have an account on alioth > (I've done > nothing with this for the last month, been to busy with other > stuff). > 5) I've been testing installs with LaserJock's excellent work that > he's done > on the seeds that turns Edubuntu into a distro again, as some > people have > desired. > > Cheers, > Scott > > -- > Scott L. Balneaves | He that breaks a thing to find out what it is > Systems Department | has left the path of wisdom. > Legal Aid Manitoba | -- J.R.R. Tolkien > > -- > edubuntu-users mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users > > -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
